Jasmine Star blogged the other day about the mistakes she made when she started into photography. Some of hers, I’ve made, some I’ve done right. But the biggest mistake I made with my photography was this: not trusting myself. Almost since the beginning, I have tried to be the photographer I thought I should be. [...]

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. – Wallace Stevens These words make me both squirm and nod. Imagination plays a huge part in life. It [...]

“Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh.” (2 Cor. 5:16) In the beginning, Godcreated. He created from dustin His image, inHis own likeness. He breathed His Life, puttingWord in empty mouth so that He could have conversations. “Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we [...]

The words were little more than a sigh. She inhaled, exhaled, and still there was nothing, nothing but air and wishes, and not even that, if she was honest. Words don’t breathe until they are said, until they are formed on the tongue, until they slip from lip and sing across empty space. And wishes, [...]

She’s so serious here. Trying to figure out the camera with the sensation of mother-love that comes all too little lately. I borrowed her for my 365 project today. I’m working in a self-portrait angle this year, and three days into it, I’m certain it’s going to be a stretching experience. I view myself in [...]

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“And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.“ – 2 Corinthians 9:8 I’ve been at my computer since about 6:15 this morning. I have started three or four different posts. And I [...]